Comments on: A Generation of School-Voucher Success http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=3318 Conservative commentary served up in bite-sized bits Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ed Darrell http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=3318&cpage=1#comment-155636 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:36:56 +0000 http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/?p=3318#comment-155636 We’ve got 200 studies in the last 20 years that show vouchers don’t work any better than non-vouchers, that charter schools generally don’t perform up to the levels of public schools. Despite this generation of failure, Obama keeps saying he’s “for choice.” Your source appears to be unaware of that.

Romney’s faith has a religious and political tradition of supporting public schools. Utah had a voucher program — ill-advised, as most are, because they suck blood out of the public schools — but the poulation rejected it in a referendum.

Especially vouchers tend not to work for minority students. Especially against minorities, vouchers tend to hammer their public schools so they end up getting screwed when a voucher program goes into effect — they can’t afford to make up the difference, and their schools lose cash.

Most minorities are well aware of these problems. The crash of the voucher/charter program s in Baltimore and Philadelphia disproportionately affected (detrimentally ) African American kids. California’s school collapse, due to a 40-year “austerity” kick, disproportionately hurt Latinos.

Still, Obama is probably the best bet for minorities, since he supports higher education for them.

That is a driving reason for the voter suppression efforts the GOP is running in Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, and a dozen other states.
What was it you wanted who to do in the voting booths this fall?

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